Almost all the illithids are dead, and even a few on the periphery have been seriously injured. It's probably impossible to make them do anything, and it's impossible for your power to continue to be consumed like this to transform into new ones.
The corpse can restore your strength, but it will cause damage to your soul. If it comes one or two more times, the damage will be irreversible.
The human named Edward was not found, but I think there is a high possibility that he is still alive. I feel that the disaster of life did not actually have an effect. At most, it only severely injured him, and he was still far from death.
If he still retains the power to manifest, then this explosion may not be able to cause him harm.
He is very powerful and has strong ill will towards you. I have no choice. If I don't kill him, you will definitely be dragged down by him in the near future, and it is not a small trouble, but a big problem.
, I have such a hunch.
…
Pieces of information flowed into Edward's mind like this - it felt a bit strange. As the thoughts flowed, it was like a voice was constantly narrating. But it was different from the language of the soul, more plain, more mechanical, and more...
Accurate and fast, so all communications are completed in less than a second.
Is that the voice of the mastermind?
Edward couldn't help but shake his head. According to his previous guess, this mastermind may have an important connection with Katzeyek, or it may be one of his clones. And a mastermind is undoubtedly the best illithid body. As long as it can
By driving it, the effect of psychic powers will be increased several times like super resonance.
But now it seems that my guess may still be a little wrong. This mastermind is not Katzeyek's clone, but more like his pet.
But no matter what, what Edward needs is right here.
Now that everything has been destroyed, Katzeyek is still alive, so his life box can only be here, with this mastermind...
He closed his hands and pulled them apart. The tiny electric light condensed into countless tiny thorns at his fingertips. The next moment, like a swarm of wasps, they rushed towards the mastermind! The seemingly tiny electric light spread out a network in the air.
, in the blink of an eye, it had enveloped the surrounding area by thirty feet, and rushed towards the huge illithid mastermind!
This is not spiritual power, but divine power. Although the electrical energy web shaped by mental power looks like a mist-like hazy sheen, even if just a small ball of energy comes into contact with the master brain, it can tear a hole in it.
A big hole five to six feet in diameter!
However, it was beyond Edward's expectation.
Right in front of him, the huge brain deformed... The pink main body seemed to melt in the silver light of spiritual energy, rolled up and fell, easily toppling the divine power grid.
Behind you!
That's the ectoplasmic form?
But how does it know my movements?
When thinking like this, a special and wonderful feeling comes from the evil ghost Tathagata coming from the underworld, and he concentrates slightly. The huge message contained in that feeling makes the psychic warlock startled!
It cannot be put into words, it is just a feeling, and the source of the feeling is a kind of spiritual data.
"Time goes backwards?" He said in surprise. But at that moment, the scenery in front of him seemed to be returning to a slightly familiar scene...
Countless spiritual tentacles hooked up the energy in the air, condensed and squeezed it, and constructed a thick shield. On the opposite side of the shield, a figure in black robes stood quietly in the air, with a pair of pale palms raised,
Close it, then pull it apart, and countless tiny rays of light are pulled out between the opposite fingers. The next moment, it turns into a large gushing silver light and pounces forward!
The light shines, and the innate spiritual energy solidifies into energy that can deflect everything. However, the electric light goes straight through this obstacle, as if they have never appeared! In the blink of an eye, the gushing electric light unfolds, wrapping it like a huge network.
The vision, then, was an overwhelming stream of light and a terrible sting.
…
Edward's pupils narrowed, reflecting the large ball of silver in front of him - passing through the divine energy grid, the movement of the illithid mastermind did not stop at all, and his ectoplasmic body stretched like a large ball of jelly,
With one roll and one jump, he has already retreated fifty or sixty feet! With another flip, he has jumped out of the big pit formed by the explosion and rushed up to the upper ancient city!
What is that?
The psychic warlock frowned and squeezed out a deep "Chuan".
The response of the illithid mastermind was so accurate and fast that people almost applauded it, but Edward didn't want to pay attention to his opponent's movements at all - just at that moment, two similar but completely different things appeared in front of his eyes and in his mind.
Different scenes appeared in his mind at the same time, and then progressed separately. The weird feeling mixed together was so real, it even blurred the boundary between illusion and reality, like a memory engraved in an instant, making
He was a little dazed for a moment.
Even though the self-hypnotic combat state would lengthen the psychic's time perception, making his reaction far beyond that of ordinary people, he was still sluggish for more than a second until the ball of silver light transformed from the illithid's main brain escaped.
I suddenly woke up when my vision was clear.
Opening a random door and stepping in, the mind's thoughts raced rapidly——
It's definitely not an illusion.
Divine power can break the illusion, and the protection of the royal power can make him immune to the influence of any illusion. Unless it is some kind of operation of this artifact, other illusions are completely meaningless to Edward. Moreover, the state of self-hypnosis has been compressed.
His perception of time. Under such extreme high-speed thinking, any influence caused by illusions will fragment the perception.
The most important thing is that from the time he launched the attack to the time when the Illithid mastermind escaped in ectoplasm, it only took two seconds at most. No illusion can produce so much information in such a short period of time - then
The feeling and the real vision are superimposed and extended for almost five to six seconds, or even ten seconds.
In addition, the perspective in that picture is not his subjective perspective, but...
Illithid mastermind?
This seems to be the only explanation that makes sense - that is to say, the hallucination is a piece of information, which also leaked from the consciousness of the illithid master's brain and was sent into his thinking - it may be
Because of the amount of psychic confrontation between Edward and the Mastermind, it is more likely due to some special ability brought about by the remains of the illithid in his body.
After stepping out of the door, Edward seemed to have found some clues.
But new questions followed one after another - what is the meaning of this picture transmitted by the illithid mastermind? Also, about time regression - what happened to the word that just appeared in his mind?
thing?
Time regression, or time regression, is the most powerful of the nine levels of psychic power... This is what Edward knows about all the meanings of this term.
But why did I think of it at that moment?
Information about ninth-level psychic powers is very scarce, and what Edward had previously obtained from the illithids was only partial information - just like magic, powers with the title of 'highest' have never been easily controlled by mortals.
Things. Even among natural psychic species like illithids, beings that can manifest ninth-level powers are equally rare.
Especially going back in time.
Related to the most powerful branch of rules of 'time', this psychic power is also considered an extremely mysterious one among psychic powers. According to the original explanation, it is a means of moving the entire time frame backward for a period of time. Time is reversed
, what has been experienced will become like it has never happened. But it will happen soon.
Therefore, the manifester can seize the opportunity to make time flow in a direction that is beneficial to him. However, because the final result is all for change, some psychic researchers speculate that it is just a super-level prophecy technique.
It allows the manifester to detect what is going to happen in the future and then change it.
So all that - the process of the illithid mastermind being killed by divine lightning - is so real, even if it is just a fragment leaking out of the opponent's consciousness?
But the reason why it is so real is because it actually happened once?
His heart skipped a beat. It was as if a flash of lightning flashed through his mind, so briefly but yet clearly illuminating certain facts!
Looking back in time - no wonder, the illithid mastermind just now was so powerful. He was able to dodge his own divine lightning in that unforgettable moment, and even anticipated the subsequent changes! The reason was simply that he had been
He was hit once, but he used spiritual energy to forcibly distort time and space, changing the result again.
It turns out that it’s really time going back...
Edward sighed softly and ended his analysis of the situation, because at this time, several figures on the map drawn by the divine power had already rushed towards him!
It's Marilyn.
The clones of the assassin moved so fast that it was shocking. The three women, each holding a spear, a giant sword and a staff, had already rounded the corner in an instant. A large purple stream of light formed on the tip of the staff, and then
The light belt stretched out, connecting the fifty or sixty feet away from the psion!
Advanced Missile Storm.
Brilliant purple streams of light flew past in bunches, bringing with them fierce winds. They drew beautiful arcs on the wide streets of the ancient city, and then hit the illithid in black robes.
Spell missiles are the simplest magic in structure. They are directly shaped by the pure arcane power in the magic network, but this also makes it the best containment spell. No matter what kind of shield it is, it will be in front of these energy balls.
is gradually consumed - therefore, both skilled casters and apprentices who have a glimpse of the skills will use it when they need to contain the opponent. Even if it cannot cause damage, the impact of the energy field will objectively stop the opponent's actions, especially
It's when dealing with a spellcaster.
As long as it is stopped even for a moment, it is enough.
In the shadows, a clone of Marilyn held a dagger upside down and moved forward silently. Her light steps and soft waist made her movements as flexible and quick as a civet cat, without any trace of what a spellcaster should do.
Some are weak. No matter in the eyes of anyone, he is an out-and-out old wanderer who is proficient in the art of assassination.
A wisp of smoke passed through the shadow at the corner of the street. Her crouching body was almost completely flat on the ground. The angle of her stealth was chosen just right - not to attack, but to wait. As long as the target was struck by the giant sword,
Forced back a little with a spear or magic, she will quietly appear from behind and silently cut off the illithid's spine with the dagger in her hand!
However, the target in his eyes did not take even half a step back.
Without seeing him make any move, a shower of more than thirty arcane missiles disappeared in the air, as if they had never appeared. In front of him, the spear drew a dim light in the darkness, and then a jagged
The arc moon halo of the big sword kept the two weapons sideways, blocking all roads. But in the next moment, both the spear and the giant sword stopped in mid-air.
Countless filaments stretch out from the void!
Or, the momentum was closer to flowing out, and the slender silver light was flying all over the sky. It turned into a huge silver mesh. When the four Marilyns were caught off guard, the thread had already wrapped around them from all directions, covering them layer by layer.
Wrapped in it, the women were allowed to struggle. Their broad robes trembled as if they were butterflies that had crashed into a spider web.
"What the hell!"
Edward frowned and cursed quietly.
In his field of vision, a hazy patch of dust rose and fell like mist, and the flowing cold wind was stirred up by the power of arcane magic, blocking most of the space. However, his divine vision allowed him to see those glorious human figures in the darkness around him.
——More ** division clones were alerted by this short battle and have gathered towards his position from all directions!
The electric light illuminated the space, and they were like a sharp sword cutting through the space of several hundred feet. Cutting scratches in the darkness, in the blue-purple halo, the red light of the fireball spell was almost insignificant, but as long as
A spell caster will never ignore the surging flame power under the thin magic shell, followed closely by a metal storm, with more than thirty arrows circling around the arc in the space.
The curve is like a handful of scattered fireworks.
The psychic couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Marilyn's judgment was extremely decisive... At this moment, except for herself, all creatures on the battlefield were her enemies.
But what's even more troublesome is that there is no trace of the illithid mastermind.
The ectoplasmic form cannot be regarded as a very perfect psychic energy, because when it turns into this liquid and gas-like form, it will bring many restrictions to the manifester - unable to carry out physical attacks, unable to speak, unable to run,
It will be affected by wind and cannot operate or activate items...
However, it allows the manifester to change his physical condition to move and fly. The shape is uncertain, and he can even pass through small holes or narrow openings, or even small cracks... The most important thing is that the magic items it carries will interact with
His body assimilated and completely disappeared from Edward's divine vision!
Although if you want to show off its power again, the energy it emits will never escape Edward's observation, but in this space with complex terrain and enemies everywhere, what can be more suitable for hiding than a ball of mist that can be transformed at will?
shape?
Gritting his teeth, Edward waved his hand, and a divine light shield condensed in the air, blocking all magic in one stroke. Under the soft sound of the wave, whether it was a fireball, lightning or a spar.
The demon-breaking arrows all disappeared without a trace in just a flash!
Then the psion looked up.
The eyes of the illithids in the Metamorphosis City flashed with silver light, and for a moment they seemed to be filled with white-hot electric energy flowing out. In these eyes, everything around them, both tangible and intangible, was fading away from its original appearance.
, colors, shapes, sounds... In the darkness of the void, there are only layers of lines, and the weirdly twisted and indescribable core inner layer.
This is the reality of the world in the eyes of a psychic.
With his bright silver eyes as the center, his entire body exploded into a ball of dazzling silver energy that spread around. The power of the soul spread in the space, reshaping and changing the ubiquitous energy, and then right in front of him, the ground seemed to roar.
Standing up, the stone-paved streets trembled, as if a giant beast was awakening from beneath the city.
The giant beast showed its ferocious face from between the gaps in the stone slabs. The transparent liquid surged out of every crack and gathered together, like a transparent spire arching through the ground. It traveled out of thin air, and when the black sleeves were raised,
, the water waves on the ground swelled up with the pale palm, and then violently pressed down towards the surroundings!
Accompanied by roaring roars, the water sprayed wildly to every corner of the surroundings! The waves that came out of nowhere came down majestically, swallowing up everything in a radius of nearly a thousand feet...houses, streets, clods or stones, all without discrimination.
In the rolling body!
There was a low roar in the heart, and the black-robed illithid raised a tentacle, and turned his eyes as if hearing it, and saw the huge pink sphere smashing through the half-collapsed roof of a building, floating in the air.
Into the air!
If a being who is familiar with psychic energy and magic sees this scene in front of him, or is born to reprimand Edward for his waste... using a reality distortion to communicate with the water elemental plane in exchange for a large amount of pure water, this is simply the limit of waste!
Know that controlling the water level is nothing more than a third-ring spell!
However, judging from the results, it is enough - although these flowing waters do not have any offensive power, the weakness of the ectoplasm form is that it cannot enter water or other liquids. Even if it is just wet, the manifester will appear.
True form!
The joy only lasted for a moment!
There was a muffled bang, and a huge force suddenly came from behind! The icy cold energy opened like a spider web in an instant, absorbing Edward's body and even soul! (To be continued...)